Abstract

This study was conducted to identify the factors affecting the academic achievements of Korean high school students. The participants were high school students consisting of 1015 male and 828 female students, totaling 1843. Data were collected from the ‘2019 Study on Indicator Development and Creation of Community Indicators with Happy Youth Ⅶ.’ and analyzed by SPSS 25.0 program using complex sample descriptive statistics, complex sample Rao-Scott x²-test, and multiple logistic regression. The factors affecting the academic achievement of male students were self-worth and optimism, for female students, a sense of belonging, optimism, life satisfaction, resilience, and loneliness. Improving the academic achievement of high school students would require institutional measures to mandate school-level curriculum-linked programs to promote optimism. Also, male students would require counseling and psychological education programs from a specialized institution or encouragement and support from parents and teachers to improve self-worth. For female students, implementation of various programs to improve the sense of belonging, such as student-teacher relationship programs.

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